Global Patent Index - EP 3244367 A1

EP 3244367 A1 20171115 - IMAGE-ACQUISITION APPARATUS

Title (en)

IMAGE-ACQUISITION APPARATUS

Title (de)

BILDAUFNAHMEVORRICHTUNG

Title (fr)

APPAREIL D'ACQUISITION D'IMAGE

Publication

EP 3244367 A1 20171115 (EN)

Application

EP 17167061 A 20170419

Priority

JP 2016096660 A 20160513

Abstract (en)

A pasted image with reduced blurring and distortion is generated, in a short period of time, with a small amount of calculation. Provided is an image-acquisition apparatus 1 that includes: a stage 6 on which a specimen A is mounted; an objective lens 8 that collects light from the specimen A mounted on the stage 6; a stage driving unit 7 that drives the stage 6 in the direction intersecting an optical axis of the objective lens 8; an image capturing unit 9 that acquires images by capturing the light collected by the objective lens 8; a deterioration-level calculation unit 14 that calculates deterioration levels contained in the images acquired by the image capturing unit 9; and an image generating unit 11 that generates a pasted image by pasting the images acquired by the image capturing unit 9, wherein the image generating unit 11 generates the pasted image by combining, for a common region of two images that are mutually pasted, an image with lower deterioration level calculated by the deterioration-level calculation unit at a higher combining ratio.

IPC 8 full level

G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G02B 21/367 (2013.01 - EP US); G06T 3/4038 (2013.01 - EP US); G06T 5/50 (2013.01 - EP US); G06T 7/248 (2016.12 - US); G06T 11/60 (2013.01 - US); G06V 10/993 (2022.01 - EP US); G06V 20/693 (2022.01 - EP US); G06V 20/695 (2022.01 - EP US); H04N 23/58 (2023.01 - EP US); H04N 23/6811 (2023.01 - EP US); H04N 23/683 (2023.01 - EP US); G06T 2207/10056 (2013.01 - EP US); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 23/63 (2023.01 - EP US)

Citation (applicant)

JP 2014115609 A 20140626 - OLYMPUS CORP

Citation (search report)

  • [I] US 6075905 A 20000613 - HERMAN JOSHUA RANDY [US], et al
  • [I] US 2015241686 A1 20150827 - ABE YOKO [JP]
  • [I] US 2011249910 A1 20111013 - HENDERSON DAVID L [US], et al
  • [A] BURT P J ET AL: "Enhanced image capture through fusion", COMPUTER VISION, 1993. PROCEEDINGS., FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE O N BERLIN, GERMANY 11-14 MAY 1, LOS ALAMITOS, CA, USA,IEEE COMPUTER SOCI, 11 May 1993 (1993-05-11), pages 173 - 182, XP010128631, ISBN: 978-0-8186-3870-1, DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.1993.378222

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

BA ME

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 3244367 A1 20171115; EP 3244367 B1 20190313; JP 2017203932 A 20171116; JP 6684646 B2 20200422; US 10198617 B2 20190205; US 2017330019 A1 20171116

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 17167061 A 20170419; JP 2016096660 A 20160513; US 201715591609 A 20170510